Renaissance Cassoni: Masterpieces of Early Italian Art : Painted Marriage Chests 1400-1550"This book introduces, for the first time in English, a fascinating yet strangely neglected aspect of Italian Renaissance art. During the quattrocento painting became more popular and probably more beautiful than at any time before or since. House interiors and furniture were painted with exotic stories and symbols, one of the most fashionable possessions in the grandest room in the palazzo being the painted cassone or marriage chest." / |
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... Uffizi , Florence . The charming , elaborate symbolism has been much discussed . Probably commissioned by Lorenzo il Magnifico for the wedding of his nephew Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici . PRIMAVERA Probably the world's most ...
... Uffizi , Florence . The charming , elaborate symbolism has been much discussed . Probably commissioned by Lorenzo il Magnifico for the wedding of his nephew Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici . PRIMAVERA Probably the world's most ...
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... Uffizi , Florence . Painted after Lorenzo's death , this is the only exisiting formal portrait of this extraordinary man who was more active as an encourager of the arts , than as a buyer , partly because the profits of the Medici bank ...
... Uffizi , Florence . Painted after Lorenzo's death , this is the only exisiting formal portrait of this extraordinary man who was more active as an encourager of the arts , than as a buyer , partly because the profits of the Medici bank ...
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... Uffizi , in the Diocesan Museum at Cortona , and in the Galleria Nazionale dell ' Umbria , Perugia , offers us some of the most punchy predella scenes . PRIVATE HOUSES WITH DISTINGUISHED FRESCOES In Lorenzo il Magnifico's favourite ...
... Uffizi , in the Diocesan Museum at Cortona , and in the Galleria Nazionale dell ' Umbria , Perugia , offers us some of the most punchy predella scenes . PRIVATE HOUSES WITH DISTINGUISHED FRESCOES In Lorenzo il Magnifico's favourite ...
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15th-century Albert Museum Apollonio di Giovanni Battle Berenson Biagio d'Antonio Botticelli bought British carved cassone artists cassone fronts cassone painting cassone panels Castle catalogue Cathedral century Chapel chests church collection collectors colours commissioned Cosimo d'Este decorated deschi desco da parto detail Domenico Donatello early Fahy famous Federigo da Montefeltro Ferrara figures Filippino Lippi Florence Florentine florins Francesco frescoes Ghirlandaio Gonzaga huge intarsia Isabella Isabella d'Este Italian Italy Jacopo del Sellaio later Lippi London Lorenzo il Magnifico Mantegna Mantua marriage married Masaccio Master Medici Metropolitan Museum Michelangelo Milan Musée National Gallery painted cassoni painter pair palace patrons perhaps Perugia Pesellino Petrarch Piero Piero della Francesca Pope predella probably quattrocento Raphael Renaissance Cassoni Roman Rome scenes Scheggia Schubring Sellaio Sforza Siena Sir Ernst spalliere story studiolo surviving Titian Trionfi Triumph Uccello Uffizi Urbino Vasari Venice Victoria and Albert Virgil wall wedding wrote